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Water Monitor Updates

June 5, 2025 Arthur Beisang

One week and lots of progress! Been making lots of design fixes, tying up loose ends I overlooked earlier, and simplifying the design. It’s a bit map-heavy, even for someone who loves maps (guilty!), but getting there. Also, new typeface and refined color palette have cleaned the look, and made it easier to see what’s going on.

On the improvements front, data entry has been updated to reflect the data changes this year in stream recording. Tiles in the site detail page (far right in the above image) have been re-ordered and updated to match the data points and order you enter them in on the MPCA site at the end of the year (you can also copy and paste the comments if you are in the Apple ecosystem and can use handoff).

On the new additions and outstanding features front. Navigation is coming! Just started playing with nav mode, soon you will be able to leave the GPS at home. I expect to finish up design and testing on this one soon.

Also outstanding are some updates to login/create account, profile, feedback, and a few other loose ends. All in all, I expect about another week of design and development.

On that, I will be sending out an invite to testers shortly. If you’ve signed up, awesome! Expect to get a TestFlight link in the near future, and if you would still like to get on the list, you can fill out the survey here. I am on track to start testing soon and be in the app store by the end of the month!

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Volunteer Water Monitor App

May 30, 2025 Arthur Beisang

Im making an app to allow Volunteer Water Monitors to more easily save their readings for one or more locations. Sign up to test it!

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Trail Assistant in the GPT store

January 11, 2024 Arthur Beisang

I’ve submitted Trail assistant to the GPT store. As it has been trained on more data it has continued to surprise me on how helpful it can be. A few specific improvements are below.

  1. GPT store: As mentioned it is the the GPT store this should give it a lot more visibiity and usage to help it improve. It is in the store alongside AllTrails (wah-wah) and a few other similar ones, interestingly Trail Assistant is the top result for most hiking related terms.

  2. MOAR DATA: I have been training Trail Assistant on publicly accessible data sets around campsites and hiking trails. It should be more reliable to find sites in Federal and State lands. I’ve also been training it on trail info specifically longer through hiking trails (It’ SHT data is pretty comprehensive)

  3. Accessibility: Trails Assistant is now trained to look for accessible trails (it will ask you to help it with what accessible means to you). It is still early days on this one, but there is a lot to do in this space to help more people get outside. Data sources are harder to come by though.

All in all the tool continues to improve steadily. I used it to plan a Sunshine Coast backpacking trip and the specific data on distances and sites was very helpful to start planning.

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Trail Assistant Next Steps

December 1, 2023 Arthur Beisang

What if we were able to take the Trail Assistant GPT experiment past the chat interface? I’m working on a tool that takes the user’s prompt adds in a map, and makes planning a hike (or backpacking trip) way better.

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Beta Bot My Second GPT Experiment

November 22, 2023 Arthur Beisang

Beta Bot is a GPT trained on open-sourced climbing info from OpenBeta This presents the opportunity to easily see info across different climbing spots, across states (or countries), and more.

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Trail Assistant Updates

November 16, 2023 Arthur Beisang

GPT Trail Assistant has gotten a number of updates including looking for more specific info about campsites.

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Tags gpt, llm, backpacking
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Creativity and Fishing, a Rick Rubin Analogy

November 16, 2023 Arthur Beisang

In “The Creative Act: A Way of Being” Rick Rubin’s book on creativity, he has a chapter where he compares ideas to seeds and also makes a fishing analogy. Mixed metaphors aside, it stuck with me, partly because I am a designer and a fisherman.

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Tags Design, Creativity, Books
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GPT Trip Planning Assistant

November 12, 2023 Arthur Beisang

Yes this is a terrible AI generated thing. It generates an image for you in the process.

A GPT experiment that helps with planning back packing trips.

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Tags AI, LLM, GPT, backpacking
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